Proto Rajko Colic passed away – alo.rs.

Cathedral, Photo: Hello Dejan Briza

Protu, who was born in Jalovik, under whose leadership a new church was built in Vladimirci, was “cut off” by the corona virus.

His son, Branko, a prominent Valjevo priest, was the first in the Diocese of Valjevo to be infected with this vicious virus, he managed to overcome it, but his father was not so lucky. The first church to which the church books were returned, which were removed from the Church by the revolutionary government in 1946, was the Vladimir Church. The books were personally received by Father Rajko, at a celebration attended by Serbian Patriarch Irinej and the Bishop of Sabac Lavrentije eight years ago.

– Indeed, it can be said that Proto Rajko is a legendary person, because he simply wowed with his knowledge, the beauty of his spoken words, the richness of messages and lessons that he presented in a way that both the pastor and the academic understand well – says Archpriest Mirko Vilotić, Deputy Archbishop in the Diocese of Sabac of the Serbian Orthodox Church.

-He was very educated, intelligent, sociable and a man who with all his heart served God and his family, elegant, educated and cultured, he was a pleasant interlocutor for everyone he knew. They cry.

This is the sixth priest from the diocese of Sabac who died this year, and the first when he was “carried away” coronavirus.

Prota will be buried in the Vladimir Cemetery.